The Living and the Eternal: Unraveling the Manene Ceremony of Tana Toraja
In the highlands of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, where emerald-green rice terraces carve their way through mist-shrouded mountains, time does not flow in a linear stream. Here, in the region known as Tana Toraja, the past is not a distant memory but a palpable presence. The dead are not gone; they are merely to makula—those who…